On Apr 26, 2013, at 8:06 PM, Nicolas Cellier wrote: > To be perfectly clear, does the bug occurs > 1) because we open a new file descriptor for read without flushing the old > one for write, > 2) or does it occur with a single file descriptor opened 'rw' ? > > If 1), then this is probably our fault. > If 2), then I wouldn't expect such behavior.
1), different streams are used for reading/writing, to reduce threading errors in relation to position usage. RemoteStrings have an unusual tendency to jump around a lot in the streams they're linked to, which is no fun if you, say, try and write new source at the same time in a different thread. Cheers, Henry
